46 3 Storer on the 
spot on the upper and inner side of each orbit, one 
on the top of the head, and a smaller one below each 
nostril. Thighs, legs, and tarsus, striped transversely 
with broad dark bands or oblong spots; arms irreg- 
ularly spotted. Back, smooth; flanks slightly tuber- 
culated ; buttocks, granulated; fleshy tubercles on 
the lower surface of the toes at the joints. 
R. sylvatica. Leconte. The Wood Frog. 
Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. vol. i. p. 282. 
N. A. Herpet. vol. i. p. 95, et fig. 
This beautiful species is not often met with, in- 
habiting as it does damp and thick woods; occasion- 
ally it is seen at a great distance from any water, 
and is very difficult to be taken on account of its 
agility in leaping. It is rather smaller than the 
** palustris,” and presents the following characters: 
above, of a reddish brown color, resembling a dried 
dead leaf; sides, variegated with green and yellow; 
abdomen, white ; under part of the arms and posterior 
extremities, lighter colored than the back. Snout, 
blunted. Eyes, prominent; pupils, black; irides, 
golden. A broad black band, narrow at its origin, 
wider at its posterior portion, extends from the snout 
to the shoulder: this band passes through the centre 
of the eye, including within it, the tympanum ; mar- 
gining the lower edge of this band, is a deep yel- 
low line running its whole extent.  Extremities 
above, rather lighter than the back ; the anterior ex- 
tremities are seldom banded; the posterior extrem- 
overeat) ree 
